How ideas grow into a novel – David Whitehouse QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)

…my books have been collisions of the ideas I’ve had which have stood the test of time. By which I mean I remember them a long time after I’ve had them. Eventually, these ideas clump together and become a story, by which point the ball is rolling and I have to chase it. However, I can spend six months coming up with a first line…
David Whitehouse